Speed Limits
Sep 29th 2011, 3:09 pm
#17
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Sep 29th 2011, 3:15 pm
#19
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Sep 29th 2011, 3:23 pm
#20
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Re: Speed Limits
In other news my wife got pinged yesterday!
The road in question was until recently (no excuse I know) a rough pot-holed dirt track, with sharp blind bends with a 60kmh limit. A recent bit of construction saw them repace the dirt track with a fresh smooth widened bitumen, straightened corners with clearer views - a HUGE improvement (lovely bit of road now, gentle sweeping bends, views across the bushland)
The speed limit change after this improvement in road safety? REDUCED to 50kmh....
Wife now has 4 points and we're $330 lighter.... (72 in a 50)
Sep 29th 2011, 3:40 pm
#21
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Re: Speed Limits
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In other news my wife got pinged yesterday!
The road in question was until recently (no excuse I know) a rough pot-holed dirt track, with sharp blind bends with a 60kmh limit. A recent bit of construction saw them repace the dirt track with a fresh smooth widened bitumen, straightened corners with clearer views - a HUGE improvement (lovely bit of road now, gentle sweeping bends, views across the bushland)
The speed limit change after this improvement in road safety? REDUCED to 50kmh....
Wife now has 4 points and we're $330 lighter.... (72 in a 50)
In other news my wife got pinged yesterday!
The road in question was until recently (no excuse I know) a rough pot-holed dirt track, with sharp blind bends with a 60kmh limit. A recent bit of construction saw them repace the dirt track with a fresh smooth widened bitumen, straightened corners with clearer views - a HUGE improvement (lovely bit of road now, gentle sweeping bends, views across the bushland)
The speed limit change after this improvement in road safety? REDUCED to 50kmh....
Wife now has 4 points and we're $330 lighter.... (72 in a 50)
Sep 29th 2011, 4:03 pm
#22
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Re: Speed Limits
Sep 29th 2011, 4:43 pm
#23
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Location: Brisbane (leafy, hilly western suburbs)
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Re: Speed Limits
Yep...
If current trends continue I estimate that in 40 years time cars will be capable of driving safely at 200kmh, roads will all be perfectly maintained 6 lanes in either directions with extensive gravel traps, run off areas and tire walls...
..and the law will compel us to drive no faster than 5kmh (and be backed up by cameras or handheld hairdrier radars every 200m)
The net effect of this will be? .... People will still crash more frequently as they further 'switch off' from the decreasingly demanding task of driving....
If current trends continue I estimate that in 40 years time cars will be capable of driving safely at 200kmh, roads will all be perfectly maintained 6 lanes in either directions with extensive gravel traps, run off areas and tire walls...
..and the law will compel us to drive no faster than 5kmh (and be backed up by cameras or handheld hairdrier radars every 200m)
The net effect of this will be? .... People will still crash more frequently as they further 'switch off' from the decreasingly demanding task of driving....
Sep 29th 2011, 4:49 pm
#24
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Re: Speed Limits
Yep...
If current trends continue I estimate that in 40 years time cars will be capable of driving safely at 200kmh, roads will all be perfectly maintained 6 lanes in either directions with extensive gravel traps, run off areas and tire walls...
..and the law will compel us to drive no faster than 5kmh (and be backed up by cameras or handheld hairdrier radars every 200m)
The net effect of this will be? .... People will still crash more frequently as they further 'switch off' from the decreasingly demanding task of driving....
If current trends continue I estimate that in 40 years time cars will be capable of driving safely at 200kmh, roads will all be perfectly maintained 6 lanes in either directions with extensive gravel traps, run off areas and tire walls...
..and the law will compel us to drive no faster than 5kmh (and be backed up by cameras or handheld hairdrier radars every 200m)
The net effect of this will be? .... People will still crash more frequently as they further 'switch off' from the decreasingly demanding task of driving....
Sep 29th 2011, 5:25 pm
#25
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Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Brisbane (leafy, hilly western suburbs)
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Re: Speed Limits
) - and the chicanes are great fun - they really add to the roads entertainment value. My kids seem to have developed a habit of singing, "Weeeeeee... Weeeeeee" as they sway gently from side to side going through them! 
(..and the NIMBYs in question I'm sure were all on the Kenmore side - trying to stop us 'Gappies' from having a pleasant drive to the shops at Indooroopilly and wanting us instead to join the already horrendous traffic fuckup that is Bardon!
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Last edited by DadAgain; Sep 29th 2011 at 5:31 pm.
